Woman robbed at gunpoint at Brooklawn Park Friday

A woman was robbed at gunpoint at Brooklawn Park Friday afternoon after a stranger approached her, made small talk, and then pulled a pistol and demanded everything she had.

NEW BEDFORD — A woman was robbed at gunpoint at Brooklawn Park Friday afternoon after a stranger approached her, made small talk, and then pulled a pistol and demanded everything she had.

Capt. Steven Vicente of the New Bedford Police Department said a 24-year-old Dartmouth woman was sitting in the rear parking lot of Brooklawn Park near the baseball fields Friday afternoon.

Around 2:30 p.m., a woman approached her and asked her if she was there to watch a softball game or had anyone at the game.

When she said she wasn't, the stranger then pulled what appeared to be a black pistol and demanded she hand over everything she had, Vicente said. The victim surrendered a small amount of cash and an iPhone.

The perpetrator then got into a newer-model cranberry colored car that may have been a Nissan Sentra, with a male with a baseball cap and long hair in braids behind the wheel, and fled the scene, Vicente said.

The perpetrator is described as a fair-skinned white woman with a boyish haircut who was wearing dark-colored thermal shirt and baggy jeans, Vicente said. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Michael Carrier at 508-991-6300 ext. 114.

— JONATHAN CARVALHO

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